Review of Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation. By Shane O’Mara. Harvard University Press. 322 pp. $29.95 CIA records describe the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the ...
Explore the diverse world of interrogation techniques, each designed to elicit information through various psychological and ...
The American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives voted on Sunday to affirm an “absolute prohibition against psychologists’ knowingly planning, designing, and assisting in the use of ...
AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University psychology professor is leading an international research team developing new interrogation methods designed to reduce false confessions and more effectively ...
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In court this week, a psychologist who waterboarded prisoners for the CIA rolled up a towel, wrapped it around the neck of a criminal defense lawyer, and slowly pulled the ...
From psychological pressure to physical methods, interrogation has shaped history in war, politics, and justice. This ...
Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during ...
Barack Obama won the White House with a firm promise to put an end to what critics called the Bush Administration’s use of torture on terror suspects. But as the ...